Title: The Acceleration of METEORAIT: AI as an Ecological Factor, Volume II
Tags: geopolitics, cognitive-atrophy
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The second volume describes the fall of the meteorite, where the first described the object. Its central idea is that AI does not accelerate by itself: it is pulled by the humanity that adopts it. The market, war, states, companies and every user who delegates a mental task act as its gravity.

The structure is a countdown. If the history of technology since fire were compressed into one year, the GPT era would occupy the last ten minutes, and each chapter covers one of them: GPT-1 and the Transformer (2018), GPT-2 and the staged release (2019), GPT-3 and the illusion of knowledge (2020), the API and code generation (2021), ChatGPT and mass contact (2022), GPT-4 and the integration into office software (2023), multimodal models and large contexts (2024), data centres, chips and energy (2025), and autonomous agents (2026). Every chapter has the same parts: what happened, the impact, the form acceleration took, and the "people of the minute", the researchers and teams named for that step.

Along the way the book follows a shift in what AI is: from a research direction to a product, from product to infrastructure, from infrastructure to environment. With agents, the unit of work moves from the answer to the process, and the human moves from doing each step to approving a result whose path he no longer sees. The author connects this to False Cognitive Power Transfer.

The last chapter, dated 1 July 2026, treats the present: the industrial volume of generated text, agents that continue after the user has left, opaque frontier models, and military autonomy as the hardest accelerator. The epilogue uses the image of an atmosphere that cannot stop a meteorite but decides the size of the crater. MEG2, with a functional legal identity for agents and five operational states, is the legal part of that atmosphere, and three habits (controlled latency, the five-minute wall, AI used as critic) are the personal part.